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Russian Language Now Second Most Popular on the Internet

Did you know that according to study of a linguist
András Kornai, Russian language is now the second most common language on the
Internet as judged by volume of text?

The Language of Tolstoy
and Pushkin occupies about 6.1% of online texts, coming in a distant second to
English, with 54.9%, ITAR-TASS reports.

The
top three is rounded off by German with 5.3%. Next in descending order come
Spanish, Chinese, French, Japanese, Arabic, Portuguese, Polish Italian,
Turkish, Dutch and Persian.

Russian
Minister of Mass Media and Communications Nikolai Nikiforov also spoke of this
in late October at the Open Innovations forum in Moscow. "The number of
Russian-speaking users around the world is so great, that our language is the
second most popular on the World Wide Web". Moreover, he said, this
creates "positive preconditions for further development of the high-tech
economy in our country.”